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When Health Care Insurance does not make a Difference – The Case of Health Care ‘Made in China’

Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status … does not affect health care demand in a significant manner. Counterfactuals suggest that full insurance coverage of the …

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Dedicated Doctors: Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians

Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Physicians are supposed to serve patients' interests, but some are more inclined to do so than others. This paper … studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in … altruistic physicians infer that in their absence, NHS patients receive lower treatment quality than private sector patients …

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Can Risk Adjustment prevent Risk Selection in a Competitive Long-Term Care Insurance Market?

Bakx, Piet; Schut, Erik; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

When public long-term care (LTC) insurance is provided by insurers, they typically lack incentives for purchasing cost-effective LTC. Providing insurers with appropriate incentives for efficiency without jeopardizing access for high-risk individuals requires, among other things, an adequate...

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Free Medicines thanks to Retirement: Moral Hazard and Hospitalization Offsets in an NHS

Puig-Junoy, Jaume; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Casado-Marin, David - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This paper examines the impact of coinsurance exemption for prescription medicines applied to elderly individuals in Spain after retirement. To evaluate this coinsurance change we use a rich administrative dataset that links pharmaceutical consumption and hospital discharge records for the full...

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The Shadow Price of Aircraft Noise Nuisance

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Baarsma, B.E. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

This paper has a twofold objective. First, we develop a new method to assess the monetary valuefor individuals of external effects. The method makes use of an ordinal index of life satisfaction asscored by individual respondents who are subjected in varying intensity to the external effect....

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Overreporting vs. Overreacting: Commuters' Perceptions of Travel Times

Peer, Stefanie; Knockaert, Jasper; Koster, Paul; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

We asked participants of a large-scale, real-life peak avoidance experiment to provide estimates of their average in-vehicle travel time for their morning commute. Comparing these reported travel times to the corresponding actual travel times, we find that travel times are overstated by a factor...

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Door-to-Door Travel Times in RP Departure Time Choice Models: An Approximation Method based on GPS

Peer, Stefanie; Knockaert, Jasper; Koster, Paul; Tseng, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

A common way to determine values of travel time and schedule delay is to estimate departure time choice models, using stated preference (SP) or revealed preference (RP) data. The latter are used less frequently, mainly because of the difficulties to collect the data required for the model...

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Omitted Variables and Misspecified Disturbances in the Logit Model

Cramer, J.S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

In binary discrete regression models like logit or probit the omis-sion of a relevant regressor (even if it is orthogonal) depresses the re-maining b coefficients towards zero. For the probit model, Wooldridge(2002) has shown that this bias does not carry over to the effect ofthe regressor on...

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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency; The Case of Job Satisfaction

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...

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Using Happiness Surveys to value Intangibles; the Case of Airport Noise

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Baarsma, B.E. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

We assess the monetary value of the noise damage, caused by aircraft noise nuisance around Amsterdam Airport, as the sum of hedonic house price differentials and a residual cost component. The residual costs are assessed from a survey, including an ordinal life satisfaction scale, on which...

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